Manny Needs A Perm: Boston Media Will Now Officially Cover Anything (And So Will We)

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Who are these 'Rockies' you speak of?
Published 6/12/2007 by Dan Lamothe at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
... Ah, interleague play. The brainchild of beautiful baseball minds, it was created in part to pit teams in opposite leagues against natural geographic rivals. You know, Mets-Yankees, Astros-Rangers... Red Sox-Rockies. Wait, what's that? Colorado and Boston are more than 1,000 miles apart? Oh. In any event, the Red Sox head to the cradle of Major League Baseball tonight, Coors Field in Denver. I'm not quite sure what that means, other than there will be a humidor involved, and Tim Wakefield, Curtis Montague and Josh Beckett starting for the Red Sox in a three-game series. Since I'll be running around today on a variety of projects, I wanted to leave you with some Sox-related links, many of which fall into the wacky category. We'll be back some time tomorrow to talk about Wake's flutterball joining the mile-high club. 1). If you haven't seen the NESN piece on Manny Ramirez and Lmonstro, the Red Sox hair stylist, check it out here. Several sites, including

Manny Ramirez Might (Sort Of) Join the Blogging Game
Published 6/12/2007 by Matt Watson at FanHouse
... : Lowell revealed he has plans to start a blog. "Not for me," he said. "My philosophy is, if Manny is willing to sell a grill for $20,000, I'll tell him just to talk to me, and I'll type a blog for him -- Mannysblog.com. And I'll pay him $21,000, he'll think he sold a grill, and I'll negotiate a dollar a hit. I'll be a gazillionaire, and Manny will be happy because he can buy a new barbecue . . . Everyone wants to know what Manny's saying, so all he has to do is give me two legitimate answers and after that I'll make up anything I want, and nobody will know the difference." Actually, the idea of a faux Ramirez blog makes so much sense I'm surprised no one out there is already doing it. He could start talking about the game, segue into a discussion about his hairdresser and then branch off into stream of consciousness ramblings about shapes he sees in th